Phone scam warning

[T1 Terry]

Your mate is called Brain?

Is it an ironic nickname and he's actually as thick as mince?

My poor spelling, but love the reference as being thick as mince, better than 2 long planks, it would be in the Aussie tradition as well, like calling a red head bloke Bluey or someone who has a tendency to steal stuff is called Jack .....

T1 Terry

 

[MG Clive]

My poor spelling, but love the reference as being thick as mince, better than 2 long planks, it would be in the Aussie tradition as well, like calling a red head bloke Bluey or someone who has a tendency to steal stuff is called Jack .....

T1 Terry

It was short planks when I was a lad, I guess that's inflation for you.

 

[Ian Key]

It was short planks when I was a lad, I guess that's inflation for you.

When have you ever known an Aussie downplay something?

 

[GaryMG4]

I have Android call screening activated on my phone which allows Google Assistant to answer unknown calls, ask who is calling, and then provide a real-time transcript. It doesn't screen known numbers so friends, family and businesses don't get screened but scammers with spoofed numbers or suspect numbers that have been reported as spam do. They hang up as soon as they realise they are being answered by AI.

Unfortunately at the moment it is only available on Google Pixel phones and newer Samsung Galaxy devices via the native phone app's settings.

And iPhones.

 

[GaryMG4]

I've not had any for a while, I usually do a reverse security check on them, ask for last amount or 'challenge phrase'. About 3 weeks after the last one I got a text from an unknown number that started 'Oper something, stating we believe you may have been scammed please contact this number', I sent it to the scam number, it turns out it was the police gathering evidence as they had caught the scammer.

 

[T1 Terry]

It was short planks when I was a lad, I guess that's inflation for you.

If the planks were short, why would they need to be thick, the longer the plank, the thicker it needs to be so it doesn't break in the middle ...... thick short planks just doesn't make sense .... or have I missed something

T1 Terry

 

[Archev]

If the planks were short, why would they need to be thick, the longer the plank, the thicker it needs to be so it doesn't break in the middle ...... thick short planks just doesn't make sense .... or have I missed something

T1 Terry

Precisely- that’s it

 

[T1 Terry]

When have you ever known an Aussie downplay something?

Like a Digeridoo? You can't up play one of those, that's a Digeridon't .........

Maybe the Aussie cricket team could play with only half the team, to give the poms a chance

T1 Terry

 

[Haricot]

Had one a few days back, from Telstra telling me there had been suspicious activity on my interweb account ..... sounded like fun, so I went along with it for around 5 mins, but each time he told me to type something into the computer to redirect it, I would come up with a crazy named website ..... then tell them I must have mistyped, could he go through the steps again .... by the third time I changed it to "This site has been blocked as malicious" then asked again where he was calling from, he replied that it was the Telstra data centre, ah, I thought you said Tesla, we don't have a Telstra account ..... the phone line went dead immediately, I tried to ring back but it came up as a disconnected number ......

The things we do to pass the time when it's too hot to go outside and play .....

T1 Terry

I had a similar call a few years ago. I strung them along as a bumbling, hard of hearing incompetent for 10 minutes "typing" what he told me to. When he asked what it said on my screen, I said "it says I've worked in IT for 40 years, now fudge off you scamming b*****d". The angry torrent of abuse made me smile for the rest of the day

 

[WoNkY]

Many years ago… a work colleague kept getting phone calls from various people trying to to book the 5-a-side court or badminton court etc. Turned out his phone number was one digit different to the local sports centres number. He did contact the sports centre and asked if they could ask BT for a different phone number but was told it wasn’t their problem. Initially he used to tell the callers that they had called the wrong number but eventually got fed up and took their bookings and let the sports centre take the flack.

 

[securespark]

That's just utter stupidity on their part...

 

[Rolfe]

When I was a kid our phone number was 330. But then they added a number and it was 2330. That's when the trouble started. The local baker was 2230.

Phone rings. Dad (the village minister) answers it. Returns 30 seconds later. "Bell the Baker?" asks Mum. Dad nods wearily and sits down. Till one amusing day.

Phone rings. Dad answers it. "Is that you, Jimmy?" says the voice. Dad, whose name is James but who is invariably addressed not as Jimmy but as Sheumais, tentatively agrees. Voice launches into a long spiel concerning the exact specifications for a wedding cake. Dad, who by this time has recognised the father of the bride in question, answers, "Look, I'll marry her for you, but I'm no bakin the cake for you as well."